Archive | June, 2008

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ICANN Paris – New TLDs, ipv6, Dottel and dotme

By on June 30, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, dottel, Events, icann, Ipv6

Last week’s ICANN meeting proved to be incredibly busy, both in terms of number of attendees and the number of announcements made. From our point of view there were a number of topics that are relevant and important to our business and I’ll be posting about some of these in the coming weeks both here [...]

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ICANN Meeting Opens In Paris

By on June 24, 2008 in afilias, Blacknight, Domains, dotasia, dotmobi, dottel, enum, eurid, Events, icann, Ipv6, nominet

ICANN’s 32nd International public meeting opened in Paris yesterday morning. There are several hot topics on the agenda and judging by the crowds of people at last night’s welcome cocktail, attendance levels are good. If you’re interested in finding out more head over to the meeting’s official site where you can find details of meetings, [...]

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Live Chat Now Available!

By on June 17, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, News, vps

We’ve been toying with the idea of providing “live chat” on our site for quite some time. We finally found a software vendor whose product fit our criteria, so we’re now offering live chat on our VPS hosting site. All conversations are routed over 128 bit SSL, so your privacy is assured. We would, of [...]

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Upcoming Events – Busy Times

By on June 16, 2008 in BarCampBelfast, Blacknight, Events, icann, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia The next couple of weeks look like they are going to be quite busy. Thursday evening sees the Firefox party in Dublin, which is sponsored by ourselves, PutPlace, Wubud and BT. If you’re in Paris this week there’s a domainer meeting being held prior to the ICANN meeting. It looks like quite [...]

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Want to help us design the complete ruby on rails hosting package?

By on June 15, 2008 in Hosting, Programming, Ruby on Rails

Ok the title sounds a bit funny, but it’s the best I could come up with. Calling all developers, ROR users and people who need and want flexible ruby on rails hosting. What is your ideal server setup? There are many choices, here are the ones we’d consider. 1) Apache + FastCGI? 2) Apache + [...]

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BarCamp Belfast – 21st June

By on June 11, 2008 in BarCampBelfast, Blacknight, Events, irishblogs, News

We’re delighted to be involved in some little way with the next BarCamp event which is being held on Saturday, June 21st 2008 in Queen’s University. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend, as I will be in Paris for the ICANN meeting. If you’re interested in finding out more or would like to simply [...]

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IPv6 At ICANN Paris

By on June 10, 2008 in Blacknight, icann, Ipv6, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia (ICANN meeting Lisbon, 2007) I will be heading over to the ICANN meeting in Paris next week. At present ICANN holds international meetings three times a year and it’s a very good opportunity to get involved with the discussions of policy and future development of the internet. While I am looking forward [...]

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Billing System Maintenance Tonight

By on June 5, 2008 in Blacknight, ecommerce, irishblogs, Maintenance

We’re doing some maintenance on our billing system this evening from around 8pm (Irish time) to around 9pm. During this period the following services will NOT be available via the main Blacknight website: New orders – hosting & domains – this does not have any impact on VPS hosting Payments Viewing / editing account details [...]

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Firefox 3 Party – Dublin – Sponsored by Blacknight

By on June 4, 2008 in Blacknight, Events, irishblogs

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been using Firefox as my browser of choice for so long now that I honestly can’t remember what it was like to use anything else. Later this month Firefox v 3 will be launched (it’s currently in advanced beta testing) and it will be time to celebrate. The good people at [...]

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